About Me

This journal -- the antecedent to the blog -- gets its start from a
decision to dig up all the grass in our yard and plant flowers,
perennials, ground cover, shrubs, a small tree or two, berry bushes,
vegetables. My first title for it, I remember now, was "The Amateur." I
am fond of the word's Latin roots -- it means "lover." I'm not trained,
I'm not a professional, I just began digging things up and planting. To
be an amateur means to do something not for money, but for love. Five
summers later, I am still an amateur, but the place has blossomed. I
loved the development stage; now I'm working on management, maintenance
-- skills that require patience. I like doing things, trying things, and
seeing what happens. I experiment, I learn from experience (or try to).
I love to see things growing. I love the idea that when we step
outdoors, we are in nature. The "environment" begins at the doorstep.
Open the door; breathe the air; listen. Today a cardinal sat on the head
of a sunflower, bobbing and calling, looking for all the world as if he
had just lost something. I noticed he ate a few sunflower seeds too.
There is always something to see.Here's the "interests" list:

Friday, October 23, 2015

My Novel on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, "Suosso's Lane," published!

My
long-awaited (at least by me) novel on the Plymouth roots of the Sacco and
Vanzetti case, titled "Suosso's Lane," has been published!

The ebook
edition of "Suosso's Lane" is now available online from the publisher,
Web-e-Books. You can find it at www.web-e-books.com.

If you like
to read books online, or are willing to give it a try, you can purchase it for
$7.95.

Print
copies of the book are not ready yet. I'll have to produce them.

I'm posting
two releases from Web-e-Books below: The Media Release that describes the book
(and, yes, offers a few words about the author's credentials).

And the
publisher's "easy purchasing instructions" on buying the ebook from
its website, www.web-e-books.com

*** Media Release ***

Suosso’s Lane, by
American Novelist Robert Knox Released on Web-e-Books®

The Innocence of an Executed Immigrant Sought
at old Plymouth Home

Quincy, Massachusetts, USA–
Suosso’s Lane, fiction by American
author Robert Knox, is being released on Web-e-Books® in support of world-wide,
cross-platform distribution of his socially relevant novel on the inequitable
treatment of early 20th-century immigrants. Based on the scandalously unjust
trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti for a murder they did not commit, the
international cause-celebre of the 1920s, Knox's novel follows the search for
evidence of Vanzetti's innocence lost for decades to a government sanctioned
frame-up.

The
Tri-Screen Connection, LLC, publisher and distributor of the exclusive e-book,
is providing the technology platform and online shopping website for Suosso’s Lane.

In
the Story

In Suosso’s
Lane, journalist and creative writer Robert Knox revisits the history of
Plymouth, Massachusetts, "America’s hometown," at a time when
immigrant factory workers struggled to make their way in an America of long
hours and low wages. The book traces the circumstances that led to the
notorious trial and widely protested executions of Nicola Sacco and Plymouth
dweller Bartolomeo Vanzetti, targeted by local authorities for their radical
beliefs and framed for a factory payroll robbery and the shooting deaths of two
security guards.

A newly edited novel, Suosso’s Lane dials back the clock to revisit the flawed trial of
Italian immigrant Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a believer in "the beautiful
idea" of a classless society in which all would work for the common good.
A sober-minded laborer, Vanzetti suffers from the exploitive treatment of
industrial workers in the early decades of the twentieth century. Outraged by
the greed and injustice that mar his idealistic hopes for the "New
World," he joins other anarchists in promoting strikes and preaching
revolution. In 1920, Vanzetti and his comrade Nicola Sacco are nabbed by police
looking for radicals and subsequently convicted of committing a spectacular
daylight robbery and murder. After seven years in prison, even as millions of
workers and intellectuals around the world rally to their cause, the two men
are executed.

Seventy years later, when a young history
teacher moves into Vanzetti’s old house in Plymouth, Massachusetts, he learns
of a letter that might prove Vanzetti’s innocence. His attempt to uncover the
truth is hindered by obstacles set by a local conspiracy theorist, the daughter
of Vanzetti’s lover, a shady developer, and the eruption of a fire during his
search of an old Plymouth factory.

Priced at US $7.95 – read on-line or offline,
no download or installation required.

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10.An Order
Summary (Receipt) will show next, and automatically be forwarded to theuser account’s e-mail as entered in
their account set-up. Click on the link provided in this Order Summary
for access to the Suosso’s Lane e-book.
It will look like this: http://suosso.web-e-
books.com/

Sign-in with the login name and password entered in the
account set-up process. Begin reading. (Wesuggestsavingthelinkaboveasafavoriteinyourbrowserforquickfutureaccess.

Otherwise, login
from the start page on www.web-e-books.com and click-on Read My Titles (a drop down), then click “read now”
next to the title, Suosso’sLane).